RE: [K12OSN] RH 8.0
Flavio Veras (flaviove@trios.com)
Fri, 4 Oct 2002 09:12:41 -0400
Try http://www.get-linux.com/ very good price.
Cheers
Flavio
-----Original Message-----
From: Wiz 8 [mailto:wiz8@hotmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:17 AM
To: k12osn@redhat.com
Subject: RE: [K12OSN] RH 8.0
Try http://www.cheapbytes.com They usually have CD-Rs of newly released
distros and try to get pressed CDs as quick as possible. Before I had
broadband, I would get CDs from them very inexpensively, hence the name.
Paul
>I'm impressed with 7.3, can't afford the DL of 8.0, so we will probably
>have to shell out the money for the RH CDs.
>
>Cheers,
>Bert
>
>On Friday, October 04, 2002 9:13 AM, anthony baldwin
>[SMTP:mrbaldwin@school-library.net] wrote:
> > Wow,
> > I am sure psyched for the new release! Especially now that I am on
> > the long term tech goals committe at my school, and they want to upgrade
>from Win2k to Linux (Yeah, that IS an upgrade, not simply a migration,
>IMHO.).
> > The one concern I have regarding making seerious changes to my present
>system is this: When I tried to move from the 7.2 release to the 7.3 I
>could not get the PPPoE configured to work with my DSL connection.
> > I ended up doing a reinstall of 7.2, and had to reconfigure evrything
>all
>over again.
> > I lost some files and all of my bookmarks, saved passwords, etc.
> > Is there a way to save the bookmarks, passwords and other settings while
>doing an upgrade? I also wonder if it is going to take a while to get many
>of the OSS programs I now run to upgrade and be compatible with the new RH.
> > The 7.2 release of k12, which I am still using, works great for me, but
>I
>am very open to an upgrade. I do still have a few issues, as it is. For
>instance, when printing, I have to add a long header to all docs, or I lose
>the top inch of them, no matter what program I attempt to print from (Abi,
>KWord, or OpenOffice.org). Also, running XCD Roast, I can copy CDs, but I
>have not once been able to burn files from the hard drive without copying
>them from another disk (thus, I can not burn my photos, music or other
>files to CD) even when I move the files to the same directory to which I
>copy a cd before a burn.
> > I am hoping that these issues will eventually be solved. If they are, I
>may become completely M$ free. Presently, I still boot my Win98 partition
>to print some docs and to burn CDs of music, photos, etc., and run some
>games for my daughter. If I could solve these issues, I would wipe all
>Micro$lop from my hard drive and never look back!
> >
> > I must say, I think RH has gone a bit steep in pricing the Professional
>8.0 ($149.99). I am glad to have access to K12os, where I can acquire the
>full OS and developers tools at so low a cost. This will go a long way in
>aiding my school's upgrade.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> > http://www.School-Library.net
> > Read, Connect, Learn!
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